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I had dealings with friendly and beneft
societies for some twenty years. During
the whole of that period my list averaged
between 500 and 600 members per
annum. They comprised Oddfellows,
Foresters, Druids, Railway and Police
Society members. For many years I only
had dealings with Oddfellows and Police,
so that my remarks are principally based
upon my experiences amongst them. Both
those bodies are largely recruited from the
tradesman and farmer class. They represent
men of some ambition. Amongst the
Oddfellows the earning power of members
varied greatly. The bulk of them averaged
from £3 to £5 per week. Some earned as
much as £10 per week, and a few rose to
£1,000 a year or over. The comparatively
rich men, as a rule, did not avail themselves
of my services. Some of them, however, did
so, and upon my giving them some hints
regarding the matter said they had joined
the Society when poor men and continued
supporting it all along, and hence they
thought they were justly entitled to any
benefts going. Their reasoning may have
been sound, but their sense of generosity
unsound. To rise to be a master tradesman
or small merchant seemed to be the
ambition of most of them, and numbers of
them accomplished their purpose. When
they arrived at that point many of them
were much more comfortably situated than
their struggling medical adviser. In their
success some stood by their friend of other
days, and some threw him overboard. The
men joining the Police Force seemed to
do so from various motives. They were all
picked men physically, but their mental
capacities varied immensely. Some joined
in the hope that police duty might enable
them to arrive at something better, but the
great majority were “steady job seekers.”
The aims of the ambitious men were
towards the higher ranks of the service, or
the possibility of qualifying as lawyers, or
becoming publicans.
Some Disadvantages in Clubs
By GORDON MACDONALD, M.D.
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100 YEARS AGO
Farmer droving sheep, Bay of Plenty. New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic
prints and negatives. Ref: PAColl-8163-83. Alexander Turnbull Library,
Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23194750